TY  - JOUR
TI  - Evaluation of the Causes Of Blindness In Patients Admitted to the Health Board Of A Hospital Servicing Souteastern Anatolia
AB  - Objective: We aimed to reveal the causes of blindness in patients who applied to a health board of our hospital whichprovides service to a socioeconomically depressed region.Methods: We retrospectively reviewed the records of 314 patients who were blind in at least one eye were recordedamong 2214 patients who were referred to our hospital's health board between February 2016 and January 2018 forevaluation by the health board to receive a disability report from our hospital.Results: In this study, we determined that 185 (58.9%) patients were female, 129 (41.1%) patients were male and themean patient age was 70.84 ± 19.15 years. The most common causes of blindness were cataract seen in 104 (33.1%)patients, phthisis eyes in 53 (16.9%) patients, optic atrophy in 40 (12.7%) patients, corneal opacities in 35 (11.1%)patients and diabetic retinopathy in 20 (6.4%) patients.Conclusions: Both in our study and in other studies conducted in our region, preventable blindness such as cataract,phthisis and corneal opacity have been detected at high rates. Therefore we believe that more awareness and effortmay be needed to reduce such preventable blindness in our region.
AU  - Erdem, Seyfettin
DO  - 10.5798/dicletip.539931
PY  - 2019
JO  - Dicle Tıp Dergisi
VL  - 46
IS  - 2
SN  - 1300-2945
SP  - 209
EP  - 214
DB  - TRDizin
UR  - http://search/yayin/detay/332811
ER  -